Introduction to Kubernetes

If your company is about to embrace containers and develop microservices-type applications, this course will get you started. You’ll get a hands-on tour of Kubernetes core concepts covering installation, configuration, and the API resources to use for your containerized applications. You’ll learn how you can use Kubernetes primitives to build a distributed application that can scale and make efficient use of containers.

As the course comes to a close, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to take your container images to production, build a complex distributed application, and manage it in your data-center. In short, you’ll be well positioned to usher your company into the world of containers.

What you'll learn-and how you can apply it

By the end of this live, hands-on, online course, you’ll understand:

The Kubernetes cluster architecture

Basics of Kubernetes installation

The API resources and endpoints

How to interact with a Kubernetes cluster using kubectl

How to use the Kubernetes primitives to build a scalable containerized application

And you’ll be able to:

Interact with a Kubernetes cluster using the API and the kubectl CLI

Build distributed applications using the core API resources

Explore all the Kubernetes primitives and understand how they will integrate with their enterprise workflow and processes.

Perform rolling-updates and rollbacks of your applications

Expose your applications using Kubernetes services

Monitor your cluster using Prometheus

This training course is for you because...

You’re an application developer and want to understand how to prepare your containerized application for Kubernetes.

You’re an application developer who is building Docker images and want to learn how to use those images in Kubernetes.

About your instructor

Sebastien Goasguen is a twenty year open source veteran. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he worked on Apache CloudStack and Libcloud for several years before diving into the container world. He is the founder of Skippbox, a Kubernetes startup acquired by Bitnami. An avid blogger he enjoys spreading the word about new cutting edge technologies . Sebastien is the author of the O’Reilly Docker Cookbook and 60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack.

Schedule

The timeframes are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing